Each of deep rounded sides flaring from a narrow flat foot, covered overall with a brownish-black glaze, the exterior splashed with caramel-bluish streaks, and the interior painted with an connecting spirals in a creamy coffee brown glaze simulating tixi lacquer, the glaze finishing just above the knife-pared foot, the base unglazed revealing the buff body, the rim bound in gilt-metal band, 4.1 inch diameter. Provenance: Property of a Vancouver, Canada estate by descent